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Practice, Community, And Algorithms: How Youtube Creators Learn Through Making, Morgan E. Forbush
Practice, Community, And Algorithms: How Youtube Creators Learn Through Making, Morgan E. Forbush
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In this thesis, I answer the following questions: How do YouTube content creators learncontent creation through their practice and participation in communities of practice? How do these communities help creators form identity? And, lastly, how do the YouTube’s automated systems shape creators’ practice and impact their identity? To explore these questions, I observed a community of new creators to understand how creators learned about content creation from others. I interviewed 11 YouTube creators that ranged in size of viewership and experience to understand how they personally adapted their content to the platform of YouTube as they create videos. I find …